Stealing My Friend’s Wife

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◎ Stealing another's partner | Taking by force | The aloof ideal man driven mad by love

◎ A seemingly cold and refined, but secretly devious and duplicitous, noble heir 🦊 × A seemingly honest and mild-mannered, but actually kind-hearted and easily bullied, curvy married woman 🐦

Everyone knew that Yun Cheng was the eldest legitimate son of the Yun family, the leading noble house, and a snow-covered peak no one could hope to reach.

Yet this flawless jade had recently acquired an indelible stain: he was about to marry a widow.

People were curious about Shao Zhen, the woman who had somehow won the heart of the aloof ideal man. In private, they speculated about how a woman marrying for the second time could have earned Yun Cheng's favor.

While rumors about them swept through the city, Shao Zhen was dressed in a bright red wedding gown and locked inside a tall pavilion by Yun Cheng, forbidden to leave. With tears streaming down her face, she pounded on the door and pleaded, "Let me out! Tao Lang has come back, hasn't he? I want to see him!"

Yun Cheng watched her through a crack in the door, his gaze cold as he saw her tears ruin her makeup. He tossed out a single line: "Don't forget whose wife you are now."

Shao Zhen crumpled to the floor, powerless. She knew he was determined to defy all propriety and take her as his wife by force.

It was all because she'd been deceived by his saintly appearance and fallen too deep.

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At first, Yun Cheng had only deigned to spare Shao Zhen a little attention to fulfill a request from a close friend.

The woman came from a lowly family and had a difficult, greedy stepmother and younger brother. She hardly met the standards for a noble family's matriarch, yet his friend had lost his head and insisted on marrying her despite his family's objections.

Yun Cheng neither approved of nor understood his risking a falling-out with his family over a woman.

Until, before heading to the battlefield, his friend brought her to see him and said, "Zhen Niang is gentle and softhearted. If anything should happen to me, please look after her, Brother Yun."

The young woman said nothing, hiding behind her husband with her head bowed. Her snow-white pearl earrings made the faint blush at the roots of her ears especially striking.

Yun Cheng's calm gaze fell on their hands clasped tightly together. He nodded in agreement.

Afterward, swords and arrows showed no mercy, and his friend died at Lu City.

Yun Cheng watched Shao Zhen silently clutching her handkerchief as tears fell. The delusion he'd buried in his heart at some unknown time began to cry out wildly: If she wanted someone to rely on, why couldn't that someone be him?

All he had to do was say the word, and no one in his clan would dare say a thing against her.

He went to great lengths to leave Shao Zhen with nowhere else to turn until she sought his protection. As he wished, he coaxed her into wrapping her arms around his neck and kissing him, gradually covering the traces her late husband had left on her. But on their wedding day, his friend, who had been missing for months, suddenly appeared...

Yun Cheng should have been happy that his friend had returned alive, but instead he looked as dark as a storm cloud and snapped the brush in his hand.

So what if it was all a misunderstanding? So what if he had to bear the blame? They had already exchanged vows and shared every kind of intimacy. She could only be his wife.

He would simply go along with it and keep her firmly in his grasp.

Blurb written on March 17, 2026

Reader's Guide:

1️⃣ The female lead is not a virgin, but the male lead is. The female lead and the second male lead have been intimate.

2️⃣ The male lead is stubborn and sharp-tongued at first, though he's already fallen for her. Later, he eats his words and becomes a devoted dog for love.

3️⃣ The female lead is honest and doesn't realize she's leading him on. She's relatively weak and has a rough time at first, but don't worry, she won't be tormented. At heart, this is a sweet story about two people who are willing participants.

4️⃣ A strong-man/weak-woman story written to indulge my preferences. I like writing about powerful, aloof men with obsessive love who bow their heads and beg the heroine to love them.

5️⃣ Also titled My Wife, Zhen Niang

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